Discover Yijia’s search for connection in "Yi The Sun"

When I first pressed play on Yijia’s new single "Yi The Sun", I felt like I was being pulled into two worlds at once. On one side, there’s this hypnotic, pulsing trance beat, it's shimmering, futuristic, almost cosmic. On the other, the ancient timbre of Yi folk melody, drawn from a field recording Yijia stumbled across years ago. The collision is startling, but it works: a sound that feels both ancestral and ahead of its time. What gives the track its emotional gravity is the story behind it. Yijia later discovered through a DNA test that she is more than a quarter Yi, making the song not just an experiment but an act of rediscovery. The lyrics deepen that sense of return: “Hey, hello, is anyone home? I’ve been gone for too long.” It’s a line that feels at once like a cry into the void and a greeting across centuries. Listening to "Yi The Sun", I felt the uncanny resonance of roots reaching forward, meeting beats designed for the dancefloor. Yijia calls it “taking my ancestors clubbing,” and that description couldn’t be more apt. With her new album TU now out, this track is a luminous gateway into its rich, boundary-breaking soundscape.